All posts tagged "civil engineering"

• 

  10.4K

  2

  Arts and Leisure

  Helen Metcalf, The Mom Who Founded RISD With Some Leftover Dough

  In 1877, a Providence mom named Helen Metcalf persuaded her women’s club to spend money left over from a fair to found...

• 

  24.6K

  2

  Politics and Military

  Fort Blunder, America’s Most Embarrassing Gun Battery

  The storied gun battery known as Fort Blunder offers a lesson for civil engineers: Before you build, make sure your surveyors know...

• 

  15.8K

  18

  Massachusetts

  The Legend of the Baldwin Apple

  So revered is the Baldwin apple that Massachusetts has not one but two monuments to the bright red winter fruit. For many...